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| 21 | 429 | View more quotes about life">Life is not easy for the slave girl in the laundries or mills, or in the quarries or mines, carrying water. |
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| 21 | 426 | One or two of the men smiled. |
| 21 | 427 | "Slight as it is," he said, "it seems such that it could be appropriately subjected to lengthy servile labors". |
| 21 | 428 | She looked at him, frightened. |
| 21 | 429 | Life is not easy for the slave girl in the laundries or mills, or in the quarries or mines, carrying water. |
| 21 | 430 | In the fields they are often put to the plow and must struggle and strain, aching and sweating, exhausted, pitting their small weight desperately against the traces of their harnessing, their feet slipping in the dirt, to turn the black, resistant soil under the lash of impatient peasants. |
| 21 | 431 | A woman will do much to avoid a peasant master. |
| 21 | 432 | Many a haughty dame, threatened with such a fate, becomes in a moment transformed, flinging herself to a man's feet, frightened, piteously groveling, desperately begging rather to be kept, if he will only permit it, as the lowest, most lascivious and zealous of his pleasure slaves. |